Pollardia ghiesbreghtiana [A. Rich & Gal.] Withner & Harding 2004
Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer
Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey
Drawing By © R Jimenez/Hagsater & Soto
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Common Name Ghiesbreght's Pollardia [Belgian Orchid Collector in Mexico and Guatemal 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico on the Pacific coast as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte in wet pine-oak forests at 2000 to 2700 meters in elevation with ovoid to ellipsoid, clustered pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, lanceolate to elliptic-ligulate, acute or obtuse leaves that blooms in the winter and spring with an apical, 1 1/2 to 5" [4 to 12 cm], few [1 to 5] flowered inflorescence with resupinate, fragrant flowers.
Similar to Pollardia hastata and possibly conspecific with but it differs in the less atractive flowers, the slender column and the single leaved pseudobulb
Best grown mounted on tree fern, cold temperatures, moderately bright light and watering while growing and a lessening in the winter.
Synonyms Encyclia ghiesbreghtiana (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1961; *Epidendrum ghiesbrechtianum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Pseudencyclia ghiesbreghtiana (A.Rich. & Galeotti) V.P.Castro & Chiron, Richardiana 4: 32 (2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 19 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Epidendrum gheisbreghtianum
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum ghiesbrechtianum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Epidendrum gheisbreghtianum;
Brittonia 13: 264 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia gheisbreghtiana;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum ghiesbrectianum;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium ghiesbrectianum;
Phytologia 82: 378 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea ghiesbrectiana;
Richardiana 4: 32 V P Castro & Chiron 2003 as Pseudencylia ghiesbreghtiana
*The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1067 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Prosthechea ghiesbreghtiana drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #12 2012 photo fide;
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